期刊
GENETICS
卷 205, 期 2, 页码 503-516出版社
GENETICS SOCIETY AMERICA
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.195578
关键词
Huntington's disease; intergenerational CAG repeat instability; HD knock-in mouse models; genetic background
资金
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT) [SFRH/BD/51705/2011]
- National Institutes of Health [NS049206]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/51705/2011] Funding Source: FCT
Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by the expansion of a CAG trinucleotide repeat in exon 1 of the HTT gene. Longer repeat sizes are associated with increased disease penetrance and earlier ages of onset. Intergenerationally unstable transmissions are common in HD families, partly underlying the genetic anticipation seen in this disorder. HD CAG knock-in mouse models also exhibit a propensity for intergenerational repeat size changes. In this work, we examine intergenerational instability of the CAG repeat in over 20,000 transmissions in the largest HD knock-in mouse model breeding datasets reported to date. We confirmed previous observations that parental sex drives the relative ratio of expansions and contractions. The large datasets further allowed us to distinguish effects of paternal CAG repeat length on the magnitude and frequency of expansions and contractions, as well as the identification of large repeat size jumps in the knock-in models. Distinct degrees of intergenerational instability were observed between knock-in mice of six background strains, indicating the occurrence of trans-acting genetic modifiers. We also found that lines harboring a neomycin resistance cassette upstream of Htt showed reduced expansion frequency, indicative of a contributing role for sequences in cis, with the expanded repeat as modifiers of intergenerational instability. These results provide a basis for further understanding of the mechanisms underlying intergenerational repeat instability.
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